AI Platform Operations & Model Launch Engineer

OpenRouter, Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Career growth

Collaborative culture

Competitive compensation

Job summary

OpenRouter, Inc. is building an AI model marketplace that simplifies bringing frontier models to market and onboarding providers across labs. You will own model launches and manage provider partnerships, working directly with model labs and the AI ecosystem to iterate quickly and ship under tight timelines.

The role suits an AI enthusiast comfortable with inference APIs, writing maintainable tooling, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to grow the platform at scale.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years at a startup, software engineering, product ops, or similar.
• Experience with inference APIs and reading API docs; troubleshooting with logs/cURL/Postman.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tools to speed up model onboarding and evaluation.
• Document processes and prepare them for automation.
• Run end-to-end model launches and coordinate with providers.
• Maintain versioning, release notes, and migrations.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

API debugging

Education

CS/Engineering degree (nice-to-have)

Tools

Inference APIs

Job description

OpenRouter, Inc. is building an AI model marketplace that simplifies bringing frontier models to market and onboarding providers across labs. You will own model launches and manage provider partnerships, working directly with model labs and the AI ecosystem to iterate quickly and ship under tight timelines.

The role suits an AI enthusiast comfortable with inference APIs, writing maintainable tooling, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to grow the platform at scale.